title: The interaction of preserved pragmatics and impaired syntax in Japanese and English aphasic speech.
abstract: Elicited narrative studies have shown that the underlying pragmatic factor of empathy is relatively preserved in aphasic speakers of Japanese and English (7 Japanese and 14 English-speaking aphasics of varied diagnostic types). Occasional "reversal errors" can be explained in terms of a conflict between the normal encoding of the empathic characteristics of an event and the syntactic limitations imposed by impaired production processes. To account for these findings, we propose a production model following Levelt (1989) for making pragmatic choices among syntactic forms. We also suggest that preferential access to "canonical form" might be a matter of surface morphosyntax, rather than involving semantics or more abstracts levels of syntax.
authors.affiliation: Linguistics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0295, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Menn
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Reilly
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kamio
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sasanuma
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D008875:Middle Aged; D012660:Semantics; D012720:Severity of Illness Index